The Contender Still Has Alot of Fake Shit

The sound effects for every punch is for the casual fan but they make sounds even when punches dont land, barley land, or are blocked. Every punch is huge. The thing that really gets me and I hope you guys notice, is that that double up on shit alot and sometimes tripple up on it. Like they will show a guy throw a combo, then show that same combo again from a different angle, and then sometimes show it again from another angle so it looks like the guy just hit him with 9 straight punches but it was really 3. Even take that last fight with Walter when he winded up for the bolo and hit him with a jab. They showed the shit like 4 times in a row and made it seem like the other guy was a amature that kept getting him with that same cocky move but he really only hit him with it like once or twice. They do this shit alot and the mainstream fan cant tell the difference. That makes alot of rounds look worse then they are and it makes it look like one guy is getting killed or clearly winning the round when in reality I bet they all arent so obvious I couldn't agree with you more. The contender turns a real boxing match into a threatrical melodramatic rocky movie. Frankly, I don't know how any boxing fans can watch the show! The only time I watched the contender is when they showed the finale fights uncut and unedited on ESPN. And they were pretty competitive and entertaining boxing matches.

I look at it liek this. They say this show is to help boxing and gte people to watch it. Then people say they show the "rocky movie effects" to get people to watch it instead of showing real boxing. Then when people watch real boxing it wont be like rocky effects. SO why not just show them real boxing in the first place? Don't make sense to me at all. The Ultimate Fighter show showed teh whole fights and I think that show did A LOT for the UFC. The guys they are getting for the Contender are generally not skilled enough to make really exciting fights. Like that one white dude with all the KO's. He was always throwing those wild-ass punches (from what they showed)... totally unskilled boxer.

in the contender, there are fights where you never know whose actually winning coz they're always cutting scenes in the fights. you think the other guy is winning but the opposite is actually happening! i guess they need to do this sometimes to prevent boring times in the fight and show only the exciting ones! ;)

That sounds like Walter Wright. He didn't want to have his family there, because he wanted to focus on the fight.. i was telling my friend how much that drama annoyed me. i was telling him i wish i was on contender so i could sit there before the fight and be like "f*ck his woman, f*ck his family, im here to kill this sonofabitch!!!" i cant stand the gay shit, how are you sposed to take a fighter seriously that says something like. "im her peanut butter and shes my jelly" and then starts cheesing

hey guys i hey to break this to ya but, there is a lot about boxing nowadays that isnt "real". like hbo judges, sanctioning organizations ppv and non competitive oposition. these things all delude the sport so we cant tell who is good or not. they tell us who is and then we pay to see them fight. bogus.

I look at it liek this. They say this show is to help boxing and gte people to watch it. Then people say they show the "rocky movie effects" to get people to watch it instead of showing real boxing. Then when people watch real boxing it wont be like rocky effects. SO why not just show them real boxing in the first place? Don't make sense to me at all. The Ultimate Fighter show showed teh whole fights and I think that show did A LOT for the UFC.

The contender reminds me a game of Fight Nigh. :p

yeah I thought ESPN was talking about just playing the full fights and dealing without the repeated slow mo. That would have been better in my eyes. And Although I do like the show, It is ovious they get the dudes who have family's n shit to make it more dramatic. I feel bad for the single boxers, who are 10X better then these guys but are not getting a shot because they can't bring there kids and wife to there fight or arn't good looking enough. I'd love for some grimey ass loner dude (with a good record) to be cast and kick everyones ass. yah know ROFL.....yeah, the only thing I really worry about is that producers can pretty much CHOOSE who they want to advance. I've seen editing on a MMA fight in which a guy landed no punches and got knocked out in 30 seconds but the video editing still made it look like he totally whipped the other guys ass. The producers can see throughout the season who will likely have more general public appeal and get that guy to finals. I prefer TUF which gives the entire fights unedited. BTW DLT, the contender fights reminds me of an old video game called ready to rumble with all those sound effect, I wonder if they took the sound effects from that game?

yeah I thought ESPN was talking about just playing the full fights and dealing without the repeated slow mo. That would have been better in my eyes. And Although I do like the show, It is ovious they get the dudes who have family's n shit to make it more dramatic. I feel bad for the single boxers, who are 10X better then these guys but are not getting a shot because they can't bring there kids and wife to there fight or arn't good looking enough. I'd love for some grimey ass loner dude (with a good record) to be cast and kick everyones ass. yah know That sounds like Walter Wright. He didn't want to have his family there, because he wanted to focus on the fight..

yeah I thought ESPN was talking about just playing the full fights and dealing without the repeated slow mo. That would have been better in my eyes. And Although I do like the show, It is ovious they get the dudes who have family's n shit to make it more dramatic. I feel bad for the single boxers, who are 10X better then these guys but are not getting a shot because they can't bring there kids and wife to there fight or arn't good looking enough. I'd love for some grimey ass loner dude (with a good record) to be cast and kick everyones ass. yah know

I'm not saying my opinion is worth a shit in this area...but I personally don't care for the Contender at all. The guys on the show are all hoping that they finally catch a break. Some are older and you know they won't make it, others have poor records. I just see the television show fighters chosen half for personality and looks- rather than trying to be a legit boxing show by picking good up-and-comers and the like. It's a fake drama mixed in with B-level fighter, fringe contenders, etc. fighting for a prize that's more hopped up than it seems. Look at Sergio Mora- the Latin Snake- the winner of season one. He's nothing special in my eyes. Decent...but...worthy of the hype backing him? No. Jermain Taylor's people were talking about making a fight with him and I partly want to see it to watch the Contender champion get torn apart by a real boxer. I just feel strongly about that show being bullshit.

Yeah, but that's why is appeals to the non-boxing fan. It's a Rocky movie. If they showed it from a normal boxing angle and no effects, not many people would be watching it.